Business: Protest

The Canadian Pacific Steamship Company last week notified the North
Atlantic Steamship Conference that it would withdraw from that body.
Inasmuch as it is through the conference that the steamship
companies regulate their trans-Atlantic fares and keep equal the fees
charged passengers for equivalent services, the Canadian Pacific's
withdrawal is tantamount to a declaration, if not of war, then of
protest against the practices of a competitor.

Said Walter Maughan, General Passenger Manager of the Canadian
Pacific Railways (which own the steamship company), at Montreal last
week: "It is not unusual among important...